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'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda
reillymj writes "There are three known 'exploding lakes' in the world, where volcanic gases build up near the lake bottom until they suddenly fizz over, suffocating people with huge amounts of carbon dioxide. But the lakes also hold methane and one of them, Rwanda's Lake Kivu, is being actively tapped as a source of natural gas to fuel a power plant on the lake's shore. The government hopes that within two years, the plant will be covering a third of the country's needs. By siphoning off the gas, engineers simultaneously defuse a ticking time bomb in the lake and provide power to local communities."
Here in the State's they do the same thing with Taco Bell toilets.
I don't know about you, but I think this is hugely awesome!
It also reminds me of a Stargate Atlantis episode.. I hope it goes better for the Rwandans.
Add
O=Ta=O
And you end up with a reduction in the form of
H-O-T-C-O-C-O-A
a delicious, and more useful compound, although possibly not in much demand in Rwanda.
3BR, 2BA brick house in great neighborhood, large porches and patios, 1 acre fenced yard with pool, conveniently located near schools, bus lines, restaurants, lake that occasionally explodes and kills everyone, city parks. New carpet! $175,000.
This sentence no verb.